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Members of a local winter swimming club walk down a bank of the Yenisei River for their weekly bathing session, as the air temperature stands at minus 17 degrees Celsius (1.4 degrees Fahrenheit), in the town of Divnogorsk, outside Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk.
Sergey Krasnouhov/RIA Novosti
Staff of the Druzhba Fishing Collective Farm sort and package navaga into sacks in the town of Poronaisk, the Sakhalin region.
AP
Municipal workers walk along a path surrounded by snow covered trees in Moscow's Kolomenskoye park, temperatures on Sunday (January 20) dropped to -14 degrees Celsius (6.8 degrees Fahrenheit).
AFP/East News
Russia's Eduard Nikolaev competes on his Kamaz during the Stage 11 of the Dakar 2013 between La Rioja and Fiambala, Argentina, on January 16, 2013. The rally takes place in Peru, Argentina and Chile between January 5 and 20.
RIA Novosti
The Т-50-4 fifth generation jet fighter before taking off at the airport in Komsomolsk-on-Amur. The fighter performed its first long-haul flight from Komsomolsk-on-Amur to Zhukovsky.
Reuters
A couple looks at reproductions of work by Russian classical painter Vasily Surikov, displayed in ice frames, during the 1st International festival of snow and ice sculpture called "The Magical Ice of the Siberia" on a bank of the Yenisei River in Krasnoyarsk. According to the festival organisers, teams of ice and snow sculptors from USA, China, Kazakhstan and from 25 cities in Russia are taking part in the 5-day competition.
Itar-Tass
A scene from the production of Maurice Ravel's opera L'enfant et les sortileges (The Child and the Spells) staged by Antony McDonald at the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow.
AP
Patriarch Illia II of Georgia receives awards of the Foundation for Unity between Orthodox Peoples (FEPN) from Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and all Russia. The awards are presented for strengthening and promoting Christian values in society.
Itar-Tass
The Basargin lighthouse, one of the most famous and picturesque in Vladivostok, just turned 75.
ITAR-TASS
Otter Ashley in the aquarium in New Matsesta, Sochi. Ashley will predict results of the competitions (mainly team sport) during Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic Games.
Andrey Stenin/RIA Novosti
Russian citizens leaving Syria on Lebanon border. Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations sent two chartered flights to bring back Russian citizens from the Lebanon capital.
Ricardo Marquina
One of the Moscow City business district's skyscrapers is ablaze on January 25, 2013.
